The recent vulnerability in Postfix discovered by Sebastian Krahmer is
trivially exploitable when certain preconditions are met. Nevertheless,
it's very difficult to find such conditions in a real-world scenario. I
wrote this exploit for fun and to demonstrate that. I also hope it helps
sysadmins to check and test their systems.

I used an Ubuntu/Debian (IA32) system which *I had to make vulnerable on
purpose*. The tweaks were:
- - #1: make the spool writable to attacker
chmod o+w /var/mail
- - #2: disable mail aliases (LDA should be able to deliver mail directly to
"root" mailbox)
- - #3: use "local" postfix process as LDA

Perhaps condition #1 is the most difficult to meet, for a normal
(non-privileged) user. But think about a privilege escalation if you manage
to get into the "mail" group first (spool dir is tipically writable by
members of "mail" group).

For #2, it depends on configuration, but Ubuntu/Debian usually creates an
alias for "root", so that mail is delivered to a non-root account (and
making the system non vulnerable to this exploit).

When installing Postfix, you are asked to choose a local delivery agent
(LDA). I found one of my test systems using procmail (not vulnerable) and
another one using postfix built-in LDA (vulnerable).

For a quick test, normally, it will be sufficient to append the following
lines to /etc/postfix/main.cf:
alias_maps =
mailbox_command =
(left blank intentionally)

Finally, postfix should be refreshed:
postfix reload

There are other preconditions like:
- - #4: postfix should not be using maildir-style mailboxes
- - #5: mailbox for "root" should not exist (or at least you should have
permission to delete it, which is not always possible, even when #1 is true)

My script tries to do its best to check for these conditions (postfix
config is very flexible, I only checked some typical parameters). Feel free
to write me for corrections, etc.

PS: I didn't find Wietse's nice advisory [1] on postfix.org site (or at
least, if it exists, it's not easy to find it). Although it seems that some
non-POSIX issues in OS are contributing to the vulnerability, IMHO it's a
(low-medium risk) vulnerability in Postfix and it deserves to be listed on
postfix page. Despite this issue, Postfix continues being one of the best
mail server software ever made and my favourite MTA.